This is volume 1 of two volumes. These two books are the last ones of my work about bows and arrows of the world, showing in detail bows, arrows, quivers, thumb rings and arm protectors of northern and eastern Europe, Central- and North Asia. Both volumes contain a lot of literature about the topic, never translated into English before. Very helpful are here the numerous Russian sources.
Foreword – page 5
General, cross-cultural part
Timetable – page 6
Bruno F. Adler: “The North Asian Arrow”, 1901 – page 12
Bruno F. Adler: “The Bows of North Asia”, 1902 – page 50
G.M. Burov: The wooden bows of the Mesolithic peoples in the Far East
of Europe – page 70
B. A. Litvinsky: “The Composite Bow in Ancient Central Asia” – page 76
A. F. Medvejev: Arrows (and Bows) from Russia from “Manual of
Distance Weapons” – page 84
Special, culture-specific part
The Paleolithic period
The Earliest Russian Composite Bows – Page 185
“The Koksharovsko-Yurinskaya burial ground in the Middle Trans-Urals”
– page 193
Bone objects of excavation sites Berendyevo V and IX – page 195
A settlement near the village of Nikola-Lenivvets, Kaluga region – page
200
The Neolithic Age
Tomb of a Bronze Age master in the Steppe-Transvolga region – page 202
Broadheads made from bones of the primitive population of the region at
the confluence of the Volga and
Oka – page 209
The Middle Stone Age
The North Pontic culture from around 5000 to 700 BC – page 215
Cultural Processes in Late Bronze Age Ukraine – page 220
The Kimmerian Period (900 – 700 BC) – page 221
The Bronze Age
Warfare in the Middle Bronze Age – page 238
Distance weapons of the early and middle Bronze Age of the steppe
regions of Eastern Europe – page 260
Special ethnological partThe Parthians – page 264
The Macedonians – page 270
The Shooting Methods of the Archers of the Ancient Greek World – page
270
The Scythians, Sakaks and Sarmatians – page 274
The Tasmola culture in central Kazakhstan – page 276
Funeral from the pre-Scythian period – page 278
New materials on the former Scythian habitat on the left bank of the
Lower Don – page 280 The pre-Scythian, Sacian Tasmola culture in central
Kazakhstan – page 286
The problem of the formation of the culture of the Sakas (Scythians) in the
South Urals – page 288 Collection of the Pre-Scythian and Early Scythian
periods on the Lower Don – page 290
The weapons of Central Asian cattle breeders, 2nd century BC. – 5th
century AD – page 292 Finds from the early Iron Age near Troiskoye in the
Moscow region page 295
The ancient sites of the Upper Volga region page 297
Making of a Stone Age arrow – page 298
Some Late Bronze Age monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh – page 300
A Bronze Age kurgan near Sarychoban, Azerbaijan – page 301
The Munchaktepa burial site in northern Ferghana (Uzbekistan) – page 302
The Khangiz 1, a burial ground in Fergana – page 304
Replicas – page 305
The Xiongnu Culture – page 322
Finds of “Hunnic” origin in what is now Russia – page 323
Traditional armament of the Tesinski tribes – page 333
The Kokel Culture – page 336
Weapons of the Tajik tribes – page 346
The areas/cultures on the Upper Ob – page 354
The armament of the Berel tribes/culture – page 359
The art of war of the ancient Turks, (Gök-Turks – page 362
Peculiarities of the Lord of the Uyghurs – page 375 The armament of the
Kimeks – page 379
Main regularities in the development of weapons and military art of the
medieval nomads of Southern Siberia and Central Asia – page 387The Hungarians – page 393
Hungarian bows and arrows – page 395
Central Asian iron arrowheads – page 417
The Vikings/Varangians – page 425
The arrowheads of Birka – page 429
The Pukkila cremation cemetery in Isokyrö – page 437 Norman Archery
Equipment – page 452 Bibliography on Adler “The North Asian Arrow”,
1901 – page 467 Symbol directory – page 468
Bibliography of Medvedev – page 473
Image references – page 472
Glossary – page 477
ISBN: 978-3-948396-30-5
With more than 1.370 illustrations, many of them in colour, as well as 89 plates on 480 pages. Price: 89.- Euro – Please order via info@wiethase.de
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The second volume has 200 pages and is available under ISBN 978-3-948396-35-0.